Productivity of management information systems researchers: Does Lotka's law apply?

Ravinder Nath; Wade M. Jackson

doi:10.1016/0306-4573(91)90049-R

Productivity of management information systems researchers: Does Lotka's law apply?

Ravinder Nath, Wade M. Jackson

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Abstract

By examining 899 Management Information Systems (MIS) research articles published in ten journals between 1975 and 1987, it is shown that while Lotka's inversesquare law relating the number of authors of papers to the number of papers written by each author does not apply, a generalized version of Lotka's law referred to as the inverse-power law fits remarkably well.

Original language	English (US)
Pages (from-to)	203-209
Number of pages	7
Journal	Information Processing and Management
Volume	27
Issue number	2-3
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/0306-4573(91)90049-R
State	Published - 1991
Externally published	Yes

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Information Systems
Media Technology
Computer Science Applications
Management Science and Operations Research
Library and Information Sciences

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Nath, R., & Jackson, W. M. (1991). Productivity of management information systems researchers: Does Lotka's law apply? Information Processing and Management, 27(2-3), 203-209. https://doi.org/10.1016/0306-4573(91)90049-R

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